After the photo booth experience, I am afraid that there are several headless snakes slithering around the yard. Other snakes were likely shot right through with “plunger arrows”. This young lady has never seen a dinosaur in person. Ouch. I do love her “grandma kitchen smock”. It makes her look …
Let’s Take A Look At The Stuff Everything is down low. There is a box for shoes, one for purses, one for scarves, one for wigs, one for props ( claws, swords, and Incredible Hulk Hands are props ) Dresses, shirts, jackets and other clothes hang on the edges of …
You Can Learn So Many Things Through a Camera Lens Poke’man is a foreign language and children are fluent. If left unsupervised, children will let the water out of any rubber pool. Most Poppers never pop. Grown-ups cry when they see F-35 jets fly overhead. Water is more fun when …
WHAT ELSE DID I SEE ? I saw a wonderful grandson who visited with everyone and put his phone in his pocket most of the time. I saw kindness and love among siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles. I saw careful driving although the pirate scarf kept inching down dangerously low over his …
What Else Did I See ? I saw Tucker ride his favorite trike down the hill without crashing. I saw Tucker comfort his cousin Holden when HE crashed. I saw mommy super-heroes have conversations with junior super-heroes. I saw Maya voluntarily take a break to study a real compass. I …
Family Gathering 2018 FAST AND EASY SLIMEY SLIME I had glue left from last year. I had food coloring in the cupboard. I grabbed some liquid starch from the little neighborhood market, since that is the only place that still carries it and that is likely because few people starch …
Family Gathering 2018 Corn Starch The question was “when are we going to paint with the corn starch?” Now, I had not really thought of the sidewalk paint as “corn starch” but the previous year, the kids had had as much fun scraping the paint from the driveway as they …
The Stream Was Dry This year our favorite boat-racing stream was dry. Last year it had been the perfect place for sailing handmade boats. The Canyon stream was still running too high for all these little people. Other things crowded in and it was the evening of a very busy …
Rescued Ponies This year the attention was on the two “rescued ponies” who live through the gate. Elizabeth keeps them there along with other horses. When we first met them, they were very neglected but today they are chubby and shiny and anxious to be touched. The ponies’ names are …
I put the pirate costumes into Ziploc bags and waited for the gathering. Nothing needed explaining, for when each child opened his or her bag the game was clear and there were only squeals of delight and a scramble to get dressed. They knew all about PIRATES ! Each pirate …
